Hello everyone, new member, just started my first saltwater aquarium about 2 months ago, about 3 weeks ago I added a toadstool leather, seemed to do great for about a week and a half then it shed, looked even better after that. Well about 3 days later it shed again and hasn't had its polyps out completely since then. As of now it has had the waxy looking film on the cap for about 2 and a half days and no polyps at all. A lot of what I've read says it's normal so I'm not that worried at this point, the only other thing I wasn't sure of and wanted opinions on is the fact that the frag I bought has a small toadstool and a larger one on it. The stalks are touching at the base where they are attached to the frag, could they possibly be bothering each other? Like I said, I'm not too worried yet as they look fat and healthy but I would like to remedy any issues before they become a bigger problem, and I really didn't buy them to just look at the caps lol. I've got 2 clowns, 2 skunk shrimp, several snails, a serpent star, and a long spine sea urchin so far and all are healthy and very active, thanks in advance for reading post and replies!
Green Toadstool Leather
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I assume the lighting is fine, I got 2 LED boxes on ebay for 168 adjustable blue and white, he's about mid tank in a 75 gallon with the white light dialed back quite a bit now. Flow isn't an issue, had him in moderate flow area of the tank, moved to a bit lower flow this morning
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What type of biomedia do you have in your tank? Are you using any phosphate media? Leather's seam to react to anything that might leach Aluminium. Other corals seem unaffected by it.
Bulk reef supply GFO and carbon in dual reactor, 55gallon sump and fuge with cheato in fuge
Thanks, I've turned the white light way down as of this morning to see if there is any change
Yes it's the only 1 so far, wanted to see how it did before I bought more. They'll do ok with lights on that low of setting?
Ya when I turned the white lights off I set the blues on full power on that side of the tank. Being cheaper LEDs I just assumed they would have to run high to help the coral at all.
That assumption is incorrect. These LEDs may be cheap but they are powerful and effective. There are many tanks running these lights, i used a version of them for a year or so but never went over 60%.
Start at 30% as your max intensity (adjust the blue and white to your color liking but not over 30% on either). You can then bump the intensity up every week or two by 10% until you like the brightness. This will get your corals used to it. If your planning on having SPS or LPS I recommend putting the leather lower as they don't require much light.
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I will definitely try it that way, thanks for the info. One more question, should they be ok with their "feet" touching each other on the frag, I know they can get huge but I really don't see any way of separating them without possibly damaging one.
Ok cool, thanks again for your time!
